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The son of Edward Walsingham of Exhall, near Alcester, Warwickshire, he was born at Berwick. His father died before his birth, and his mother, who was a Roman Catholic, brought him to London.
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Francis Walsingham
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Doubts were raised in Walsingham"s mind as to the validity of his orders and of his belief, by reading the Manual of Robert Parsons, and in October 1606 he entered the English College, Rome. In 1616 he was formally attached to the English mission, and served in Leicestershire. In 1633 he moved to the college of the Immaculate Conception, Derbyshire, and there he died on 1 July 1647.
